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My votes: RDi (Rational Developer for i)

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When open member in editor(Ctrl-Shift-A) for display or print file, add open or browse with report designer/screen designer

Instead of having to the remote systems and select a member, right click and browse or open with, have this option added to the pop-up when you do a Ctrl-Shift-A. Use Case: It would be used anytime you open a display file or print file.
over 12 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

The PDM option 14 is not available from the list of PDM option for a selection result list

Add the possibility to call the PDM option 14 (compile) also from the result of a selection list. Use Case: When a physical file is changed (for example the record structure is modified), usually it is necessary to recompile all the programs which...
almost 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

Shared/Team access to Templates and Snippets

We would like the ability to configure and access shared and/or team Templates and Snippets. Use Case: To define and access shared/team Templates and Snippets that could be stored on our network somewhere or even the System i IFS. Preferably the d...
almost 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 8 Delivered

Copied Team Profile Does not copy all properties

If I copy an active team profile all the connections and filters are duplicated properly but the property sets are not. Its these property sets that is where the user actions, compile commands, etc. reside. It is very cumbersome to manually copy t...
almost 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Delivered

Require a "preferences" page for new Block Comment feature in RDP

RDP 8.0.3 introduced a new feature for commenting blocks of code. This feature inserts the comment character into the relevant position on every line selected. RPG fixed-format code requires a character to be in a specific position for the code to...
almost 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 7 Delivered

Allow comment/uncomment of a block of selected code

Allow for the comment or uncomment of a selected block of code. Use Case: User selects a block of code.System provides pop-up menu to comment/uncomment selected code.Comment characters are added/removed on selected lines.
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 5 Delivered

Action openRPGDeclaration (f3) should work with variables as well

Currently the openRPGDeclaration (shortcut F3) only works for Procedures and subroutines. It should also work for other declarations such as variables and structures (and maybe files). Use Case: When working in the code I notice that I should make...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 9 Delivered

Display last spool file for User actions

In PDM we have user actions that use DSP commands to get some information on a object, such as DSPFD, DSPFFD, etc. Some of these have equivalents in RD Power but others do not.One way to support them all would be to add an option in a user action ...
over 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered

RDI: Indicators in column 71-76 are shown referenced but not modified in outline

In the outline in RDI indicators in column 71 to 76 are shown as referenced instead of modified. This makes it dificult to see where an indicator is changed. Use Case: For example the indicators 65, 16 and 75 are in colunm 71 to 76 c seton 65C Fie...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Delivered

Provide for PDF Report on Code Coverage Usage captures

Request to be able to create a PDF report to support an individual Code Usage capture along with supporting the Merge of multiple Code Usage captures for reporting. The files we need to report on are created via the iSeries CODECOV command which c...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 2 Delivered